The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history.

Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.

The Social and Economic Structure of Early Renaissance Italy5. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family6. Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, Letter to Filippo degli Strozzi7. Bernardino da Siena, Sermons: "On the Vanity of the World and Especially of Women" and "On Usury"

Humanist Culture and Problems of Politcal Order in Renaissance Florence8. Leonardo Bruni, On the Constitution of the Florentines9. Luca Landucci, Florentine Diary10. Bartomomeo Scala, Dialogue on Laws and Judgments11. Niccolò Machiavelli, Letters12. Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius13. Scipione Ammirato, The Florentine Histories14. Giovanni Botero, The Reason of the State

Arts and Letters15. Giorgio Vasari, Life of Michelangelo16. Jacopo Pontormo, Letter to Benedetto Varchi17. Marguérite de Navarre, The Heptameron18. Montaigne, Essays: "Of Cannibals" and "Of Books"19. Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music

The Religious Reformation20. Martin Luther, Letter to Pope Leo X21. The Twelve Articles and Admonition to Peace22. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam23. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion24. The Council of Trent: Bull of Convocation and Canons and Decrees, Sessions 4 and 625. A Reformation City: The Diary of Giambattista Casale

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